The ground-breaking ceremony of the Na Thua classrooms on August 1.

Work on the project in Na Thua Village kicked off on Thursday.

Nguyen Hung Manh, vice chairman of the Chi Lang District People's Committee, said Chi Lang is home to 80,000 people, 90 percent of whom are members of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups. The locality's poverty rate is relatively high. In Van An Commune alone, around 70 percent of households are poor.

The old classrooms in Na Thua are the village's severely deteriorated community house, and they have been used for the past 17 years.

The total investment of VND477.25 million will be used for the classroom construction

Hung expressed his gratitude to Dantri/DTiNews and Kaopiz Holdings JS Company for their help in removing the last temporary classrooms in Chi Lang District.

At the ground-breaking ceremony, Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Dantri Newspaper Nguyen Xuan Toan said that the newspaper has helped build 80 works nationwide, three-fourths of which are classrooms and the remainder bridges.

Toan said that the newspaper and Kaopiz Holdings JS Company expected that work on the classrooms would be completed before the upcoming new school year so that pupils and teachers would be served in a timely manner.